Presentations
Laura Cobus (Hunter Health Professions) presented “Web 2.0 and Information Literacy: The Importance of Critical Thinking in the Health Sciences” at “Library 2.0: A New Social Model,” the ACRL/NY Annual Symposium at Baruch on November 30.
Daisy Dominguez (City) presented “The Dialogues Less Traveled in The True History of the Conquest of Peru , 1534” at “Einsteins in the City 2: An International Student Research Conference,” at City College on October 31.
Beth Evans ( Brooklyn ) presented, with Shannon Kealey of New York University , a poster session entitled “Social Network Faceoff: What's Right for Your Library?” at the LITA Annual Forum in Denver , October 4-7. Beth and Shannon also presented this session at the November 30 ACRL/NY Annual Symposium.
Rita Gregory ( City College and Bronx ) was one of three presenters of a workshop, “The Benefits of the Library Assistants' Association,” at Brooklyn Public Library on October 15.
Scott Johnston ( Graduate Center ) gave a presentation about Eighteenth Century Collections Online as part of a program on proven instructional strategies held by Metro's Bibliographic Instruction Special Interest Group on October 31. At a June 13 session on the same topic, Anamika Dasgupta (York) gave a LexisNexis presentation, while Anne Leonard (City Tech) discussed strategies for the Historical New York Times and Kathleen Collins (then of the Graduate Center, now at John Jay) explained RefWorks.
Louise Klusek (Baruch) presented “U.S. Census Microdata” as part of “Using Census Data: Beyond the Household Survey,” a New York Census Research Data Center workshop at Baruch, May 15. Louise also presented “XBRL and Financial Reporting” at the Special Libraries Association Annual Conference in Denver on June 5 and was a panelist on “From the Front Line: Views about Current Issues Confronting Information Professionals” at the Special Libraries Association New York Chapter on May 2.
Michael Miller (Queens) presented “Libraries 2.0 Meets Web 2.0: Preparing for the Future of Librarianship” as part of a Future of Libraries panel for the United Federation of Teachers' Library Media Committee in New York on March 21.
Jennifer Oates (Queens) presented “Brigadoon : Lerner and Loewe's Scotland” at the Musical Theatre in 1957 Symposium honoring the fiftieth anniversary of Murphy Hall, the music building at the University of Kansas, Jennifer's alma mater, on November 5.
Mariana Regalado , Alex Rudshteyn, and Vyacheslav Gurgov ( Brooklyn ) gave a presentation about Brooklyn 's Subject Resource Management System Version 2.0 at the CUNY IT Conference at John Jay on November 30.
Scott Sheidlower ( York ) presented “Information Literacy: The Missing Piece of the Puzzle” at the Georgia Information Literacy conference at Georgia Southern University on September 7.
Susan Thomas appeared on the panel “Literary Magazines Go Electronic: Now Where's the Print Edition in the Library” on September 13 and the Housing Works bookstore in Manhattan . The panel was part of the National Book Critics Circle's Campaign to Save Book Reviews and was co-sponsored by Library Journal .
Patricia Woodard (Hunter) presented “As Others See Us: Hymn Singing in the Mainstream Press” at the annual meeting of the Hymn Society in the U.S. and Canada at Carleton University in Ottawa in July.